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In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every soldier in every world...In Letherii, the exiled Malazan army commanded by Adjunct Tavore begins its march into the eastern Wastelands, to fight for an unknown cause against an enemy it has never seen.
This last great army of the Malazan Empire is resolved to make one final defiant, heroic stand in the name of redemption. But can deeds be heroic when there is no one to witness them? And can that which is not witnessed forever change the world? Destinies are rarely simple, truths never clear but one certainty is that time is on no one's side. For the Deck of Dragons has been read, unleashing a dread power that none can comprehend...In a faraway land and beneath indifferent skies, the final chapter of 'The Malazan Book of the Fallen' has begun...

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Steven Erikson is an archaeologist and anthropologist and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His Malazan Book of the Fallen series, including "The Crippled God," "Toll the Hounds" and "Reaper's Gale," have met with widespread international acclaim and established him as a major voice in the world of fantasy fiction. The first book in the series, "Gardens of the Moon," was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award. The second novel, "Deadhouse Gates," was voted one of the ten best fantasy novels of 2000 by SF Site. He lives in Canada.

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"Extraordinarily enjoyable . . . Erikson is a master of lost and forgotten epochs, a weaver of ancient epics." --"Salon.com" "This masterwork of imagination may be the high-water mark of epic fantasy."--Glen Cook, author of The Chronicles of the Black Company
"Erikson has no peer when it comes to action and imagination, and joins the ranks of Tolkien and Donaldson in his mythic vision and perhaps then goes one better." --"SF Site
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